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Comment Known for decades by Boeing/Airbus (Score 1) 37

Air for the cabin and cockpit is coming in through the engines and takes lubricant oil and burned up toxic remains with it as well.
Especially at take off you can usually smell this.
I think it was called air-bleed intake.
Boeing and Airbus have know about this for decades but it takes an extra 100,000$ to fit a plane with a device that prevents this kind of polluted air from entering the cabin.
When the lubricant system is malfunctioning the whole cabin can fill with smoke and planes are usually grounded and passengers are transferred to another plane.
That happens more often than the WSJ wants to report on because that Boeing advertising money is took sweet to turn down.

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